What is a shoebox app?

icloud, macos

Solution

A single-window or library style app. See the Mac App Programming Guide, specifically The App Style Determines the Core Architecture section.

Problem

This is taken from the OSX iCloud Storage reference document: If you're writing a shoebox app, on the other hand, you should not use NSDocument. So if you're doing a shoebox app, you must implement your own file presenter and deal with version conflicts through that API. What is a shoebox app?

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